To all the parents :You have a 6 to 9 month baby the wind is blowing and you are

I agree

So if I dress my baby in shoes and socks and a hat, nothing else... the baby will be warm????? *eye roll*

That one is wrong! I'm not completely heartless.... No way would I do that!

I would probably have reported to child protective services--that child was just sitting there waiting to become a victim. She is lucky YOU are the one who saw the child. I do not think all of these parents are unteachable, but I do think that our society is not set up to nurture young mothers and to provide role models for them. Yes, if I had a coat and my child did not, the coat would go on my child. One fall, when my husband was in the process of changing jobs and weather got cold before the money came in, I made a fake fur cape out of fabric scraps I had found--my 2 year old loved it, thought it was a princess coat. We do not teach or model resourcefullness, charity, or common sense nearly enough. All the people who speak of daycare and early childhood learning centers, I have been there. When I had home daycare I bought all the mittens, gloves, hats and scarves I saw at yardsales. No child left for school without, even if I replaced them six times in the winter. I remembered having cold hands, because my family did not have resources, and some of my daycare families were the same.If I could make up for it, I did, it cost me next to nothing. Moms are often too frazzled to keep up with the details and kids are too scattered to learn. I also worked in early childhood educational environment, and we provided hat and gloves for every child to have at school, labelled with their name, washed frequently, and stored safely. We kept loaner coats, changes of clothes, fresh underwear, socks and shoes.